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' we HOLDER. .No. 553,800. Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

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ALBERT P. IVOODARD, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF HALF TO ADAMH. FOX, OF SAME PLACE.

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JUG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,800, dated January28, 1896. Application filed April 26, 1895. Serial No. 547,235. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. WooDARD, of Little Rock, county ofPulaski, State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Jugs and Jug-Hold ers, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce improvements in jugs or thelike, by which they may be easily lifted and transported from place toplace, and in holders for the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of my jug.Fig. II is a view taken at right angles thereto. Fig. III is aperspective View of the preferred form of collar.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates, by Way ofexample, a jug of any usual and ordinary design, size, shape andmaterial. It is provided with an expanded annular part 2,which may becalled a head. The head defines below it and between it and the jugproper a constricted neck 3. Around this I provide a collar 4,'havingopposite lugs or eyelets 5 and 6. The collar is preferably divided andmade of a piece of spring-metal wire bent in the middle and twisted toform the eyelet 5. The eyelet 6 is formed by bending the ends of thewire which forms the collar into contiguous upwardly-curved hooks 7. Theend of the wire which carries the inner hook or one next to the jug isprovided with a bend or projection 8, which, lapping over the other endof the wire, affords a latch for fastening the ends of the collartogether or separating them, as required. In framing claims for myinvention I have designated the foregoing element by the term latchingmechanism, which I define as mechanism for unlatching the collar, asdistinguished from separating the ends by bending the wire. By thismeans provision is made for fitting the collars to different-sizedarticles and shipping them in bundles for use when needed.

9 indicates a bail, preferably made of re silient material and havinghooked ends 10, which, being secured in the eyelets 5 and 0, are, by theresiliency of the bail, held in place. The hooks 10 at the same timeafiord convenient means of fixing or removing the bail, when required,and also simple means for locking the hooks '7.

VVha-t I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a jugholder collaradapted to be clamped around a jug or the like and having its endsprovided with correlative contiguous hooks adapted to be locked by abail, substantially as specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a jugholder collar adapted to beclamped around a jug or the like and having its ends provided withparallel hooks adapted to receive a bailhook and provided at a pointremoved from the hooks with bail-securing mechanism, sub-' stantially asspecified.

3. In a jug-holder, the combination with a collar provided withcorrelative terminal hooks, and latching mechanism, of a bail providedwith a hook adapted 'to be passed through the correlative hooks of thecollar, substantially as specified.

4. In a jug-holder, the combination with a collar bent to form anintermediate eyelet, terminal correlative hooks and a latch, of a bailprovided with hooks adapted, respectively, to engage the eyelet and thecorrelative hooks of the collar, substantially as specified.

5. The combination with a jug or the like, of a collar bent to form aneyelet, terminal correlative hooks and a latch projection, and

a bail provided with hooked ends secured to the eyelet and correlativehooks of the collar, substantially as specified.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ALBERT P. WOODARD.

itnesses:

SOLOMON O. HINCKLEY,

DAVID WM. TAYLOR.

